about:
Jennifer Eadie is a writer and artist-researcher who lives & works across Kaurna, Adnyamathanha and Goolarabooloo Country. Bringing together text, image and found materials, her work interrogates censorship of body and place. Currently, she is a sessional lecturer in the South Australian School of Art and a ARC Research Fellow/PhD at Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame.
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contact:
ndjeadie@gmail.com
record:
poetry / creative
Eadie, J (2024) ‘The Impact of Missionaries’ , Westerley 69.1
Eadie J and The Kaurna Womens Art Collective (2023) ‘Footprints’, Tarnanthi exhibition installation and text
Eadie, J (2022) ‘Love Letter Backwards’ in accompanying texts: UNRAVEL exhibition publication
Eadie, J (2021) ‘Against Segregation’ in CORDITE Poetry Review, vol 101
Eadie, J (2020) 'It Turns Back Upon Itself' in CORDITE Poetry Review, vol 97
Eadie, J & Semmens, A (2020) 'LEAVE ONLY YOUR FOOTPRINTS: a dialogue exploring identity and connection to Country that is enabled through embodied movement', Critical Path Digital Interchange Festival
commissions
Eadie, J (2025) ‘1967’ text and transcription, National Portrait Gallery
Eadie, J (2024) ‘do not give in but give over’ NEOTERICA exhibition.
Eadie, J (2024) ‘this push and pull between us’ witness/ tree project
journal articles / book chapters
Muecke et al (2025) ‘Saltfish: ecologies of creative processes’ in Anna Hickey-Moody, Suvi Pihkala, Gretchen Coombs, Marissa Willcox, eds. New Materialist Affirmations: Creative Research Interventions in Methods and Practice, Edinburgh University Press:UK
Eadie J & Muecke S (2025) ‘Seaside Concepts: Walking and Writing the Lurujarri Trail’ in Felicity Picken & Emma Waterton (eds), Shores, Surfaces and Depths: Oceanic Cultures, Routledge: New York
Muecke S & Eadie J, (2023) ‘Martuwarra Walking Trail: Yurmulun to Balginjirr’ , Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council
Muecke S et al., (2022) ‘Saltfish: Ecologies of Creative Processes‘ in Sydney Review of Books
Eadie J (2021) ‘So Many Birds/One River: A fictocritical response to the Port-Yarta Puulti River, Kaurna Country’, TEXT Journal
Eadie, J et al., (2021) ‘A Collaboration with Looking Glass’ in FUMA Gallery exhibition: Looking Glass, Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce (organised by TarraWarra Museum of Art and Ikon Gallery with curator Hetti Perkins)
Muecke, S & Eadie, J (2020) 'Ways of Life: Knowledge Transfer and Aboriginal Heritage Trails' Educational Philosophy and Theory, 53:8
Eadie J (2014) ‘The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age’ Modern Fiction Studies 60:1
books
Patterson E, Allen M & Eadie J (2022) Rethinking the American Animal Rights Movement, Routledge: New York
exhibitions & residencies
2024 – memory line w/ Adrianne Semmens, wash house gallery, Sauerbier House
2024 – NEOTERICA(text) - Adelaide Festival
2024 – witness/tree w/ Adrianne Semmens, Nexus Arts Gallery
2023 – Nexus Studio Residency w/ Adrianne Semmens
2023 - Footprints w/ The Kaurna Womens Art Collective and Dave Laslett - Tarnanthi Festival
2023 – established witness/ tree project w/ Adrianne Semmens
2023 - Sauerbier House Cultural Exchange Residency
2023 - Australia Council Project Grant w/ OSCA and Kaurna Womens Arts Collective
2023 - LARTELARE artist talk & exhibition w/ The Kaurna Womens Arts Collective, Vitalstatistix
2023 - LARTELARE residency w/ The Kaurna Womens Arts Collective, Vitalstatistix
2023 - Arts SA Project Grant w/ OSCA and The Kaurna Womens Arts Collective
2023 - PAE Placemaking Project Grant recipient w/ The Kaurna Womens Arts Collective
2022 - Public art commission w/ Aunty Margaret Brodie, OSCA
2002 – established The Kaurna Womens Art Collective w/ Aunty Margaret Brodie
2022 - Deep Dive Artist Residency, POP Gallery Port Adelaide
2022 – Following the River, SALA residency and exhibition
2022 - BREW Writer in Residence – Pandanus, NT
2022 – UNRAVEL exhibition and performance w/ Adrianne Semmens, The Mill
2021 - The Impact of Missionaries, The Mill Gallery
2021 - Breakout Residency w/ Adrianne Semmens, The Mill Adelaide
2020 - Critical Path - Delving into Dance Commission w/ Adrianne Semmens
2020 - Writer in Residence, The Mill Adelaide
2018 - Poet in Residence, City of Adelaide
prizes
2024 – finalist: Bowness Photography Prize, MAPh
2024 – finalist: CLIP prize, Perth Centre for Photography
2023 – finalist: Olive Cotton Award w/ Dave Laslett (lead artist) and Aunty Tina Flanagan
creative commissions
OSCA Public art commission w/ Aunty Margaret Brodie (2022-2023)
Critical Path - Delving into Dance Commission w/ Adrianne Semmens (2020)
academic roles
Sessional Lecturer, South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia (2024- )
ARC Research Fellow, Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame, Broome WA (2022- )
Research and transcription, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, Flinders University (2021-2022)
Course coordinator, Lecturer & Tutor, Aboriginal Pathway Program, University of South Australia (2018-2021)
Tutor, Foundation Studies, University of South Australia (2019-2021)
Lecturer & Tutor, School of Arts & Humanities, ACU (2017-2020)
creative roles
Desert Voices Project - teaching artist (2024)
The Kaurna Womens Art Collective - co-founder & artist w/ Aunty Margaret Brodie (2021-2023), with Bonny Brodie leading the collective from 2024
UNRAVEL - co-founder & artist w/ Adrianne Semmens (2020-2024)
qualifications
BA Arts - UNSW / BA Fine Art - UNSW / Honours - The Australian National University
Jennifer Eadie is a writer and artist-researcher who lives & works across Kaurna, Adnyamathanha and Goolarabooloo Country. Bringing together text, image and found materials, her work interrogates censorship of body and place. Currently, she is a sessional lecturer in the South Australian School of Art and a ARC Research Fellow/PhD at Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame.
contact:
ndjeadie@gmail.com
record:
poetry / creative
Eadie, J (2024) ‘The Impact of Missionaries’ , Westerley 69.1
Eadie J and The Kaurna Womens Art Collective (2023) ‘Footprints’, Tarnanthi exhibition installation and text
Eadie, J (2022) ‘Love Letter Backwards’ in accompanying texts: UNRAVEL exhibition publication
Eadie, J (2021) ‘Against Segregation’ in CORDITE Poetry Review, vol 101
Eadie, J (2020) 'It Turns Back Upon Itself' in CORDITE Poetry Review, vol 97
Eadie, J & Semmens, A (2020) 'LEAVE ONLY YOUR FOOTPRINTS: a dialogue exploring identity and connection to Country that is enabled through embodied movement', Critical Path Digital Interchange Festival
commissions
Eadie, J (2025) ‘1967’ text and transcription, National Portrait Gallery
Eadie, J (2024) ‘do not give in but give over’ NEOTERICA exhibition.
Eadie, J (2024) ‘this push and pull between us’ witness/ tree project
journal articles / book chapters
Muecke et al (2025) ‘Saltfish: ecologies of creative processes’ in Anna Hickey-Moody, Suvi Pihkala, Gretchen Coombs, Marissa Willcox, eds. New Materialist Affirmations: Creative Research Interventions in Methods and Practice, Edinburgh University Press:UK
Eadie J & Muecke S (2025) ‘Seaside Concepts: Walking and Writing the Lurujarri Trail’ in Felicity Picken & Emma Waterton (eds), Shores, Surfaces and Depths: Oceanic Cultures, Routledge: New York
Muecke S & Eadie J, (2023) ‘Martuwarra Walking Trail: Yurmulun to Balginjirr’ , Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council
Muecke S et al., (2022) ‘Saltfish: Ecologies of Creative Processes‘ in Sydney Review of Books
Eadie J (2021) ‘So Many Birds/One River: A fictocritical response to the Port-Yarta Puulti River, Kaurna Country’, TEXT Journal
Eadie, J et al., (2021) ‘A Collaboration with Looking Glass’ in FUMA Gallery exhibition: Looking Glass, Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce (organised by TarraWarra Museum of Art and Ikon Gallery with curator Hetti Perkins)
Muecke, S & Eadie, J (2020) 'Ways of Life: Knowledge Transfer and Aboriginal Heritage Trails' Educational Philosophy and Theory, 53:8
Eadie J (2014) ‘The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age’ Modern Fiction Studies 60:1
books
Patterson E, Allen M & Eadie J (2022) Rethinking the American Animal Rights Movement, Routledge: New York
exhibitions & residencies
2024 – memory line w/ Adrianne Semmens, wash house gallery, Sauerbier House
2024 – NEOTERICA(text) - Adelaide Festival
2024 – witness/tree w/ Adrianne Semmens, Nexus Arts Gallery
2023 – Nexus Studio Residency w/ Adrianne Semmens
2023 - Footprints w/ The Kaurna Womens Art Collective and Dave Laslett - Tarnanthi Festival
2023 – established witness/ tree project w/ Adrianne Semmens
2023 - Sauerbier House Cultural Exchange Residency
2023 - Australia Council Project Grant w/ OSCA and Kaurna Womens Arts Collective
2023 - LARTELARE artist talk & exhibition w/ The Kaurna Womens Arts Collective, Vitalstatistix
2023 - LARTELARE residency w/ The Kaurna Womens Arts Collective, Vitalstatistix
2023 - Arts SA Project Grant w/ OSCA and The Kaurna Womens Arts Collective
2023 - PAE Placemaking Project Grant recipient w/ The Kaurna Womens Arts Collective
2022 - Public art commission w/ Aunty Margaret Brodie, OSCA
2002 – established The Kaurna Womens Art Collective w/ Aunty Margaret Brodie
2022 - Deep Dive Artist Residency, POP Gallery Port Adelaide
2022 – Following the River, SALA residency and exhibition
2022 - BREW Writer in Residence – Pandanus, NT
2022 – UNRAVEL exhibition and performance w/ Adrianne Semmens, The Mill
2021 - The Impact of Missionaries, The Mill Gallery
2021 - Breakout Residency w/ Adrianne Semmens, The Mill Adelaide
2020 - Critical Path - Delving into Dance Commission w/ Adrianne Semmens
2020 - Writer in Residence, The Mill Adelaide
2018 - Poet in Residence, City of Adelaide
prizes
2024 – finalist: Bowness Photography Prize, MAPh
2024 – finalist: CLIP prize, Perth Centre for Photography
2023 – finalist: Olive Cotton Award w/ Dave Laslett (lead artist) and Aunty Tina Flanagan
creative commissions
OSCA Public art commission w/ Aunty Margaret Brodie (2022-2023)
Critical Path - Delving into Dance Commission w/ Adrianne Semmens (2020)
academic roles
Sessional Lecturer, South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia (2024- )
ARC Research Fellow, Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame, Broome WA (2022- )
Research and transcription, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, Flinders University (2021-2022)
Course coordinator, Lecturer & Tutor, Aboriginal Pathway Program, University of South Australia (2018-2021)
Tutor, Foundation Studies, University of South Australia (2019-2021)
Lecturer & Tutor, School of Arts & Humanities, ACU (2017-2020)
creative roles
Desert Voices Project - teaching artist (2024)
The Kaurna Womens Art Collective - co-founder & artist w/ Aunty Margaret Brodie (2021-2023), with Bonny Brodie leading the collective from 2024
UNRAVEL - co-founder & artist w/ Adrianne Semmens (2020-2024)
qualifications
BA Arts - UNSW / BA Fine Art - UNSW / Honours - The Australian National University